Re: pbulk cyclic dependency

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-06-23 at 07:00 BST, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> I'm doing pkgsrc bulk builds for NetBSD/macppc, among them still
> for 8.0.  After updating to HEAD on pkgsrc in preparation for
> build for pkgsrc-2023Q2, I got:
>
> Resolving...
> Building...
> Cyclic dependency for package:
> cwrappers-20220403
> pkg_install-20211115
> cwrappers-20220403
>
> After digging around a bit, I think this is the thing which made
> a difference, to avoid this chicken-and-egg issue:
>
> --- pkgtools/pkg_install/Makefile       3 Nov 2021 13:37:25 -0000       1.236
> +++ pkgtools/pkg_install/Makefile       23 Jun 2023 05:57:27 -0000
> @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
> # be rethought.
> USE_NATIVE_GCC=                yes
>
> +# Try to prevent cyclic dependency loop
> +USE_CWRAPPERS=         no

Presumably this is because the NetBSD 8.0 pkg_install is too old, in 
which case I think I'd prefer to add

  NO_PKGTOOLS_REQD_CHECK=yes

to cwrappers, as it's more important that pkg_install gets built 
correctly, and we really should be removing the old shell wrappers at 
some point.

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